I rescued a Giant Leatherback Sea Turtle Trapped in a Longline Buoy

[00:00:03]The hell is that?

[00:00:09]It's some big net or something.

[00:00:22]Oh, it's a giant freaking sea turtle or something.

[00:00:34]Man, you freak me out, dude. What the heck is that?

[00:00:43]It's a giant octopus.

[00:00:55]That's a giant sea turtle.

[00:00:59]What the heck is sitting up in here?

[00:01:02]Ooh, I see a mahi-mahi.

[00:01:05]Ooh, dorado.

[00:01:12]>> [snorts] >> Sea turtle could be snagged on that buoy.

[00:01:24]Sea turtle man.

[00:01:27]What the heck you doing over there, buddy?

[00:02:11]>> Oh.

[00:02:15]Oh.

[00:02:59]Ah.

[00:03:00]Wow.

[00:03:02]I got him on the light tackle, guys.

[00:03:09]Check this out, guys. It's my personal best.

[00:03:12]Sea turtle.

[00:03:15]Holy moly.

[00:03:34]Holy [ __ ] All the fire.

[00:03:45]I'm going to let you go, buddy.

[00:03:53]See what I'm seeing? This is crazy.

[00:04:02]All right, buddy. It's okay.

[00:04:09]Oh, [ __ ] Come on. Get out.

[00:04:16]Oh, yeah.

[00:04:19]Look at that sucker.

[00:04:24]It's a heavy one.

[00:04:27]Oh, it's going to make a good soup, man.

[00:04:31]Holy macaroni.

[00:04:35]Holy macaroni.

[00:04:37]If it bites me, I'm cooked.

[00:05:01]Well, that's the biggest sea turtle I ever caught. I guarantee you that. Look at that. Oh, he's towing the boat. Oh, man, he's pulling our equipment.

[00:05:12]All right, guys. I'm going to have to uh I'm going to have to freaking think about this a little bit.

[00:05:23]I caught a sea turtle. I don't know what kind of sea turtle this is. And I can eat that.

[00:05:28]Look at all this equipment he's got.

[00:05:30]You're a lucky guy.

[00:05:34]I got a sea turtle coming. Time to boat.

[00:05:40]This is a nightmare.

[00:05:43]Just chill for a minute. I got you, dude. We're We're get all this stuff off of you.

[00:05:48]>> Oh man, what is that?

[00:05:49]>> Talk to me.

[00:05:51]>> What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do?

[00:05:53]You want me to tie you?

[00:06:00]This is crazy.

[00:06:20]That's why you should never leave a trotline out.

[00:06:23]Look, somebody catches these old turtles, man, they just left their trotline.

[00:06:27]You can see the buoy over there.

[00:06:30]So, I guess I'm just going to cut this stuff here, the whole thing. I don't know.

[00:06:35]Man, it's going to be interesting.

[00:06:41]Okay.

[00:06:43]All right, so I guess we're cut I don't want to Come here.

[00:06:57]God, you're so [ __ ] big.

[00:07:00]Oh, getting ripped on my finger.

[00:07:02]Oh, this is not going to work too easy.

[00:07:04]All right, all right, all right.

[00:07:07]I got it.

[00:07:18]Oh, I know.

[00:07:20]I'm going to get get off first, though.

[00:07:23]Ah, come on, you're beautiful.

[00:07:27]All right, there it is.

[00:07:29]We're going to saw that right off.

[00:07:35]We're going to saw that right off now.

[00:07:36]All right, saw it off. Ah, ah, ah, I I I know.

[00:07:42]Calm down.

[00:07:45]You good.

[00:07:47]Get all this.

[00:07:52]Get all this stuff off somehow.

[00:07:55]Oh, I got to get the scissors.

[00:07:59]Man, this shit's hard, dude. Come on, calm down.

[00:08:02]Calm down.

[00:08:30]I know you can't feel it, huh?

[00:08:32]Oh, yeah, there you go.

[00:08:35]Now it's choking your ass.

[00:08:38]>> Oh, well.

[00:08:40]>> Calm down now.

[00:08:47]I don't know if I want to get where I get bit.

[00:08:55]Oh, yeah, it's good around his neck.

[00:08:59]And you got freaking leeches on you.

[00:09:02]Good gracious.

[00:09:05]Oh, man, this is crazy.

[00:09:09]Oh, it's the time to sort this out.

[00:09:12]Should be fishing for tuna.

[00:09:15]All right, here we go.

[00:09:33]Ah, there you go, buddy.

[00:09:35]Ooh, getting good now, ain't we?

[00:09:38]Ugh.

[00:09:40]You got a little bit more on you.

[00:09:43]What do you think? You think you can get that off yourself? Yeah, it's coming off.

[00:09:47]It's coming off, buddy. Where are you going now?

[00:09:50]Just leave me?

[00:09:53]Son of a [ __ ] I wonder what else I got.